Improvement in cord-guides for sewing-machines



A. GOLAY.

. Cording Attachment for Sewing Machines.

No. 25,255. Patented Aug. 30, 1859.

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UNITED STATES PATE T OFFICE.

A. GOLAY, OF MOBILE, ALABAMA.

IM PRO VEMENT IN CORD-GUIDES FOR SEWING-MACHINES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No- 25,255, dated August30, 1859.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, A. GOLAY, of Mobile, in the county oi Mobile andState of Alabama, have invented a new and Improved Oording Attachmentfor Sewing-Machines; and I do hereby declare that the following is afull, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had tothe accompanying drawings, making part of this specification, in whichFigures 1 and 2 are elevations taken at right angles to each other of myimproved cording attachment, showing its application to asewing-machine. Fig. 3 is a plan-of the same. Fig. 4 is a perspectiveview of the guidingblade.

Similarletters of reference indicate like parts in all the figures.

To enable others to make and use my invention, I will proceed todescribe its construction and operation.

A represents a standard having attached'to it a bracket, B, whichcarries the spindle a for a spool, C, from which the cord is to be sup-'9, near the opposite end to the groove f, for .the purpose of receivinga screw, 2'', which screws into the head of the standard A, for thepurpose of securing the said blade or plate D in place. The cord runsfrom the spool through the eyes 0, d, and e, and along the groove in theend of the blade or plate.

The standard A is intended to be secured to the bed-plate or anystationary portion of the sewing-machine, and the blade or plate D tolie fiat above the cloth-plate E, or surface on which the material to beoperated upon is placed, and close to the pressure-pad, which is to bearranged and constructed in the usual manner, the end of the said bladeor plate which contains the groove f being arranged parallel with thefeed-movement and in such position that the groove conducts the corddirectly along past one side of the needle. The cloth, which is shown inblue color, has one of the two layers or thicknesses between which thecord is to pass arranged to pass under the blade or-plate and the otherof the two layers or thicknesses to pass over it, as shown in Figs. 1and 2. The cord is drawn from the spool through the guides 0 d e andgrooveas fast as required by the feed movement of the cloth.

g The particular example of my invention which I have represented inthedrawings is adapted to those sewing-machines which have thecloth-plate on which the work is placed elevated above the table orbedplate of the machine; but by varying the height or arrangement of thestandard A, which carries the blade or plate and the spool, theattachment may be adapted to all kinds of sewingmachines, as will bereadily understoodby mechanics skilled in sewing machinery.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is-

The arrangement and combination, with the adjustable plate D, of thegroove f and guides c d e, substantially as herein shown and described,so that the cord may be guided and conducted between two or morethicknesses of cloth, as set forth.

A. GOLAY. Vitnesses:

H. WARFIELD, F. MosnLY.

